We watched and discussed a music video that I was hipped to on CNN. The artist was a young child by the name of 'Lil Poopy'... What? The discussion spanned from questioning whether the video was child abuse, okay, a true reflection of our society to whether it was the worst thing a child has done in the name of Hip hop.
The Cosby speech took a bank seat to this discussion. I had originally thought that the blatant sexualization of women, the drug connotations, the references to violence and overt display of bling and crass consumerism was passe in the age of Obama. I was obviously wrong.
The questioning of this little boy's ethnicity came up as well as whether that changed things. The definition of' Urban ' was brought up. As the class strives to define Black a lot came to light as the discussion continued.
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